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February 20, 2018BCR 115: Noah Strycker, Birding Without Borders
Noah Strycker is the author of three well-regarded books about birds, and a regular contributor of photography and articles to many bird magazines as well as other media; he blogs regularly for the American Birding Association. Strycker set a world Big Year record in 2015, and his 2017 book, Birding Without Borders, relates the experience. Strycker has studied birds on six continents with field seasons in Panama, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Hawaii, Maine, Michigan, Australia, Antarctica, the Galapagos Islands, and the Farallon Islands. He also works as a naturalist guide on expedition cruises to Antarctica and Norway’s Svalbard archipelago, literally spreading the inspiration of birds from pole to pole. His first book, Among Penguins, chronicles a field season working with Adélie Penguins in Antarctica (Oregon State University Press, 2011) and his second, The Thing with Feathers, celebrates the fascinating behaviors of birds and human parallels (Riverhead Books, 2014). Strycker is also a competitive tennis player, has run five marathons, and hiked the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada. He is based in Oregon, where his backyard has hosted more than 100 species of birds.
Show Notes:
How did you plan the trip, and what was your strategy for breaking the existing world Big Year record?
Did you change any of your ticks after the fact based on a further study? Can you tell us about it?
Of the thousands of species, you observed, which birds stand out most?
Do particular observations come to mind as the most memorable or interesting, can you give us some details?
Your last species seen for the big year was a Silver-breasted Broadbill seen in Assam, India; this gave you a total of 6,042 species. Your record was broken the next year, 2016, by Arjan Dwarshuis with 6852 species, do you feel challenged to do it again?
Your schedule was very tight throughout the year, were their situations where the habitat or behaviors you were seeing were a draw to stay longer and see more, but the realities of geography, seasons and airlines cut those short. What was the single best habitat and or behavior that you encountered?
What lessons did you learn by birding the world in one year?
What observations would you like to share with our audience going forward, and what advice would you give to someone thinking of doing a world big year?

Noah Strycker’s backpack gear For a Big year:
A 40 liter REI backpack; Leica 10×42 Ultravid HD-Plus binoculars; Leica 65mm Televid spotting scope with tripod; Leica V-Lux camera; GoPro Hero3 videocamera; 11″ MacBook Air laptop; iPhone 4; iPod nano; Surefire Fury LED spotlight; Yalumi LED headlamp; Marmot down jacket; Columbia rain shell; 4 lightweight Mountain Hardwear T-shirts; longsleeve collared bug shirt; one pair of shorts; 2 lightweight pants; 3 pairs Ex-Officio underwear; 4 pairs socks; plain black baseball cap; Oakley sunglasses; 2 kinds of bandanas; silk sleeping bag liner (but no sleeping bag); travel lock; adapters; notebooks; Audubon pins; and various toiletries including malaria pills and Israeli water-purifying tablets.
Mentioned In Episode: Noah Strycker
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47 min
February 13, 2018BCR 114: Floyd Scholz, Master Bird Carver
Floyd Scholz is universally recognized as one of the preeminent Woodcarvers and Painters in the World today. During the past 35 years he has enjoyed tremendous success as a professional Artist, Author, Teacher and Musician.
In the late 70`s, Floyd was a nationally ranked Track and FieldStar specializing in the grueling 10 event Decathlon. He was a 3 time All American, and 1979 NCAA National Champion, and recipient of a Presidential Citation. While training for the 1980 Olympics in Moscow, he and so many others learned that they would never get the chance to realize their athletic dreams due to the Carter Boycott.
Without looking back, Floyd moved up to the mountains of Vermont from his native Connecticut and started a new life. He redirected his focus on his Artwork and Music which turned out to be a very good move!
As a 5 time U.S. National Champion and 2005 World Master`s Best in Show Champion his astonishing portrayal of Eagles, Hawks, Owls and other birds have won him a large enthusiastic international following.
As the author of 7 award winning books on Raptors, Floyd`s passion for Birds and love of Art has been shared with generations of bird lovers and artists worldwide.
In an article in People magazine Floyd was once referred to as one of the world`s true “Renaissance men”
In the Spring of 2014, Floyd was recognized as one of Bird carving`s Living Legends by the Ward Foundation World Championships.
Show Notes:
What is your early background, when did you become interested in the natural world?
Describe your early career, what forces drew you to bird carving?
Floyd, Your best known for your Raptors… Eagles, Hawks, Falcons and Owls… why?
Technique is important to any artist, how have yours changed or evolved over the years?
What type of wood do I carve my birds from and what makes it so special
What skill did you feel you must master to move to another level?
What is it like to take a commission to produce a work of art? Walk us through the process please.
How long does it take, and do you do preliminary sketches for concept approval?
What are some of the tools a modern master carver employs.
What about fine feather details, carved and painted?
Is there a bird that you have not carved that you know you want to carve?
Mentioned in Episode:
Floyd Scholz
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34 min
February 06, 2018BCR 113: Ken Elkins, Power of Birds for Dementia
Audubon Connecticut’s Ken Elkins presenting his Bird Tales program to residents of Greenwich Woods Health Care Center in Greenwich, CT. ©Bob Sacha All Rights Reserved.
Ken Elkins is the Education Program Manager, Audubon Center at Bent of the River. Ken‘s interest in birds started when he was 10 years old, while watching the birds at his grandmother’s feeders in Vermont, and he has been obsessed ever since. After earning a degree in Environmental Biology, he started his career in conservation education at Westmoor Park in West Hartford, CT and quickly moved onto the state CT Audubon Society. There, he taught at all 5 of their centers and became their Director of Education. He led many EcoTravel trips and organized their World Series of Birding team for 8 years. In 2008, Ken moved onto The National Audubon, where he’s the Education Program Manager at the Audubon Center at Bent of the River in Southbury CT. Most recently, Ken was recognized as a Toyota TogetherGreen Fellow and is past-President of the Connecticut Ornithological Association. Ken is here today to talk with us about his special program he Co-deveoloped called “Bird Tales” for people with Alzheimer’s and Dementia.
Show Notes:
Bird Tales; tell us about this program and how it came about.
This program is for people with Alzheimer’s and dementia please explain the difference between them.
What positive effects has the program had on people with dementia?
Has the program had any impact on birds or birding?
You and Randy Griffin c0-produced a training video and workbook. What was involved, what is it, and what is it intended to do.
Walk us through a successful employment of the Bird Tales Program at a health facility.
How can our listeners at home begin using birds and nature as therapy for their loved ones with dementia?
What evidence is there to prove the concept that this program helps people with Alzheimer’s?
How have you been able to transfer what you’ve learned from Bird Tales into using birds or nature as a positive experience for others?
Mentioned in Episode:
Bird Tales | Audubon Center Bent of the River – Reaching people living with dementia through multisensory therapy
Bird Tales training video and workbook copy click here
Audubon Connecticut’s Ken Elkins presenting his Bird Tales program to residents of Greenwich Woods Health Care Center in Greenwich, CT. ©Bob Sacha All Rights Reserved.
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1 hr 2 min
January 16, 2018BCR 112: Sidney Gauthreaux Jr. Ph.D.
Sidney A. Gauthreaux, Jr. Ph.D. in front of a television monitor that shows tracks of migrating birds at night recoded with a thermal imaging camera. The display of a vertically pointing radar is inserted on the side of the thermal image. The vertically pointing radar is used to measure the height of the birds observed with the thermal imaging camera. ©Carroll Belser. All Rights Reserved. Photos may not be used without written permission.
Today’s show is one of BirdCallsRadio’s featured series called “For The Record, Legacy Interviews” with this series 7th guest Dr. Sidney A. Gauthreaux, Jr.
Bio:
Sidney Gauthreaux Jr. Ph.D., received his B.S. from LSU at New Orleans (now the University of New Orleans) in June 1963; M.S. Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, in August 1965; Ph.D. Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, in August 1968; and held a Post-Doctorate Fellowship at the Institute of Ecology, University of Georgia from fall 1968 until fall 1970. He retired from Clemson University where he was a faculty member from 1970-2006 and taught ornithology, animal behavior, and behavioral ecology in the Department of Biological Sciences. He currently consults in the area of Remote Sensing and Technology and is a visiting scholar in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign where he works with a group assessing avian radars that can be used to prevent bird/aircraft collisions.
Dr. Gauthreaux’s research emphasis on studies of bird migration across the Gulf of Mexico began in graduate school in the early 1960s and continues today. He has used combinations of radar and direct visual techniques to study the characteristics and geographical patterns of bird migration throughout the United States. His research in applied ornithology has examined 1) the attraction of migrating birds at night to different types of lighting on tall towers, 2) the risks of migrating birds colliding with man-made structures such as transmission lines, towers, and wind turbines, and 3) the problem of aircraft colliding with migrating birds.
Awards:
Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1988
Elected Life-time Corresponding Fellow of the Deutsche Ornithologen-Gesellschaft, 1988
Elected Fellow of the Animal Behavior Society, 1991
Provost’s Award for Scholarly Achievements, Clemson University May 2000
William Brewster Memorial Award, American Ornithologists’ Union, October 2006
Margaret Morse Nice Medal, Wilson Ornithological Society, April 2009
Show Notes:
Bird migration on a local New Orleans weather radar (Weather Surveillance Radar (WSR-57)
If radar could detect raindrops, then it should image birds too.
Using radars to quantify Trans-Gulf migration
Clemson University, continued the radar studies. CUROL was established.
Processes & Tools for collecting data
WSR-88D NEXRAD radar station
Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology’s Bird Cast.
Tracking of migratory birds Including GIS, geolocators, Avian NanoTags, MOTUS network, Doppler weather surveillance radar
Next frontiers for today’s ornithologists.
Mentioned in Episode:
Clemson University
BirdCast – The Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
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59 min
January 09, 2018BCR 111: Jim Fowler
Jim Fowler, Andean Condor. Photos courtesy of ©Jim Fowler Archives. All Rights Reserved. Photos may not be used without written permission. Please respect the wishes of the Fowler Family.
Jim Fowler is the well known to many of us as the TV co-host, and then host, of the long running Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom TV show. In his early career as a professional zoologist, he worked with animals as a trainer and lecturer at John Hamlet’s Birds Of Prey in Florida. He also did field work in Africa and later in South America studying the Harpy Eagle in the wild for the first time. In 1955 Jim met Marlin Perkins when Perkins filmed a segment for the Zoo Parade television show in Florida.
Fowler joined Perkins as co-host in 1963 of a new show called Wild Kingdom. Jim also designed modern exhibits at the Chehaw Zoo in Georgia and was associated with the Zoological Association of America. As host of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom, Fowler received four Emmy awards and the show was approved for family viewing by the National PTA. Jim was the official wildlife correspondent for NBC’s The Today Show in 1988, and made 40 appearances with various wild animals on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.
In 1997, Fowler joined Discovery Communication’s Animal Planet as a wildlife expert and later launched the television program Jim Fowler’s Life in the Wild in 2000. Jim is still concerned about conservation matters to this, and is doing what he can to raise awareness of the issues to this day.
Show Notes:
your early years exploring nature
fieldwork with Harpy Eagles
John Hamlet’s Birds Of Prey
Zoological Association of America
Designing exhibits for Chehaw Zoo
Marlin Perkins Co-Host/Host Wild Kingdom
Critters onto Johnny Carlson’s Tonight Show
Animal Planet as a wildlife expert
Fowler Preserve
lessons and or observations
Jim Fowler. Photo courtesy of ©Jim Fowler Archives. All Rights Reserved. Photos may not be used without written permission. Please respect the wishes of the Fowler Family.
Mentioned in Episode:
CheHaw Zoo
Zoological Association of America
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55 min
January 02, 2018BCR 110: Connecticut Bird Atlas
The Connecticut Bird Atlas will map all species found in the state during both breeding/nesting and nonbreeding/non-nesting seasons. This is different from many, though not all bird atlas projects, most of which do focus just on breeding.
Chris Elphick, Associate Professor of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at University of Connecticut who will be talking to us about one of his next projects he is spearheading on the Connecticut Bird Atlas survey.
Starting in 2018, the CBA will be seeking the help of birdwatchers to document the distribution, abundance, and breeding activities of birds at sites throughout the entire state. The resulting data will be used to document changes since the last comprehensive survey of the state’s birds, which happened in the early 1980s; to inform the State Wildlife Action Plan; and to determine priority areas for bird conservation and land protection.
The Connecticut Audubon Society (CAS) recently devoted it’s Connecticut State of the Birds annual summary to the upcoming Connecticut Bird Atlas.
The Connecticut Bird Atlas is a joint project of the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection Wildlife Division, CT DEEP; and the University of Connecticut, UCONN; with additional funding from the Connecticut Ornithological Association, COA, Great Hollow Nature Preserve and Ecological Research Center, and the support of many other partners.
Show Notes:
To dispel confusion, please clarify who is responsible for this important effort?
Where does the funding for this endeavor originate?
What exactly is a Breeding Bird Survey?
When does this Bird Survey take place?
How long does the survey go on?
How does one verify the accuracy of the data?
When was the last Bird Survey?
There must be certain uncommon species that will require special attention, can you tell us what species but not where they might be found?
Why is this Atlas project so vital to the health and well being of Connecticut’s avifauna?
To what uses, have the data from previous Breeding Bird Survey’s, been applied?
Who can participate? What are the minimum critical birding skills required for participants?
We know that the Connecticut Audubon Society CAS State of the birds report has information, how do those interested become involved? Is there a contact or website that provides further details?
Mentioned in Episode:
BCR 097: Chris Elphick, Saltmarsh Sparrows
Connecticut Bird Atlas
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37 min
December 26, 2017 BCR 109: Westport CT CBC

Westport CT CBC 2017 Norwalk Islands, CT. l. to r. Mardi Dickinson, Co-Compiler; Capt Charlie Wetmore; Morgan Wetmore; Townsend Dickinson, Co-Compiler; Capt Larry Flynn. ©Mardi Welch Dickinson KymryGroup All Rights Reserved.
Show Notes:
Bird Calls Radio reports on the 71st Annual Westport CT Christmas Bird Count by joining a field party on count day that took place on Sunday December 17, 2017.
Thanks to the inspiration of Frank M. Chapman and the enthusiasm of twenty-seven dedicated birders, twenty-five Christmas Bird Counts were held that day. The First Christmas Bird Count was on December 25, 1900. About 18,500 individual birds and 27 total participants Cumulative bird species list: 89 species total.
The CBC tradition has volunteer bird watchers at all levels of experience spend all or part of one day, around the Holiday season, going out into the field in various locations within the local Count Circle. Teams of observers will canvas many local hot spots. The object is to identify and count each species of wild bird they see and to record how many of each type they see in one day.
Westport CT CBC 2017. CT Young Birders paticipants.
The CBC results are published online in AMERICAN BIRDS along with the input from 1700 other counts conducted nationwide and throughout the Americas. This is the longest running annual census of bird populations in the country, thanks to the some 44,000 thousand birdwatchers who volunteer their efforts. After the count this year CBC observers then will gather together to tally the results and join in on the complilation at potluck dinner celebration to discuss the highlights of the day and total species.
Thank you to all the 14 Captains and numerous participants that joined in for this years Westport CTWE 71st Annual Christmas Bird Count and the 118th Anniversary of this National Audubon that took place on Sunday December 17, 2017
The Westport CTWE count circle have tallied 119 count day species and 3 additional count period birds to date.
Westport CT CBC participants at compilation. Sunday, December 17, 2017
Mentioned in Episode:
Christmas Bird Count History
Christmas Bird Count Attire
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21 min
December 19, 2017BCR 108: Helen Hays, Great Gull Island
Helen Hays, Director of Great Gull Island Project ©Joe DiCostanzo All Rights Reserved.
Today’s show is one of BirdCallsRadio’s featured series called “For The Record, Legacy Interviews” with this series 6th guest Helen Hays in New York City.
Our distinguished guest today is Helen Hays of the American Museum of Natural History, New York City. What can you say about a woman who lives half the year in an abandoned fort in the middle of Long Island Sound and has voluntarily elected to do so every year for fifty years. No, she is not serving time, she has chosen to be at this place, Great Gull Island off the Eastern tip of Long Island between Plum Island and Fishers Island, to oversee what has become her life’s work. The other half of the year, she lives in Manhattan, does office work and writes papers.
Helen Hays has directed, since 1969, the work on the ongoing Tern Research project on Great Gull Island designed to study and preserve this major colony for the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, which gained control of the Island in 1949. Today the Great Gull Island tern colony attracts in the summer 9,500 pairs of Common Terns and 1,300 pair of Federally Endangered Roseate Terns making this the largest such colony of Roseate’s in the Western Hemisphere.
Before the terns arrive in the spring preservation efforts are undertaken to ensure nesting success and when the terns arrive en masse the team efforts turn to pure research. Helen is the driving force for this ever-changing band of ornithologists and volunteers from around the world, who do the work, cheerfully, under marginal conditions. The research efforts under Helen have expanded to Brazil, Argentina, Puerto Rico and the Azores and now involve modern electronic monitoring to track migration routes. As everyone who works with her knows, she is a very special person and she has helped nurture, through her labors and perseverance, one of the great ornithological preservation efforts and data banks of our times. Helen is on the staff of the American Museum of Natural History, and it is do to their continued support that this work was possible.
Show Notes:
Early years and how you became interested in the world of natural history.
Tell us about the two tern species found on Great Gull; it is for them that all these efforts have been expended.
Please give us the background on acquisition of Great Gull Island be the American Museum Natural History and the early re-colonization by terns.
When you started at Great Gull what were the conditions like and how many people where they’re in the early days.
Tell us about the data that is collected and the path the data travels to the database.
The data gleaned from years of tern research is hard science in its rawest form, what are some of the most interesting findings that have come from this work?
Describe a typical high season day on Great Gull Island.
Great Gull is not the only tern colony in the North East, what are some of the other important colonies and do they have research working on them?
Tell us about Esteban Bremer from the Fundacion Vida Silvestre Argentina and the connection to Great Gull.
There are also connections to Brazil and the Azores particularly related to Roseate Terns.
What advice would you give to young people interested in a career in the natural sciences?
Mentioned In Episode:
BCR 140 Helen Hays, Great Gull Island 50th Anniversery
Great Gull Island
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November 12, 2017 BirdCallsRadio Salutes Veterans
BirdCallsRadio salutes and honors those American Veterans and Fallen Soldiers who have served in the Armed Forces. Veterans Day, November 11, 2017.
Viet Nam Memorial, Viet Nam Veterans private visits, War Memorial, Danbury, CT. ©Mardi Welch Dickinson/ KymryGroup. All Rights Reserved.
Show Notes:
In his autobiography, Marching Along, John Philip Sousa writes that he composed the march on Christmas Day 1896. Works published before 1923 are now in the public domain. Licence: This media file is in the public domain because its copyright has expired. This applies to the United States, where Works published prior to 1978 were copyright protected for a maximum of 75 years. See Circular 1 “COPYRIGHT BASICS” from the U.S. Copyright Office.
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4 min
November 09, 2017BCR 107: Paul Baicich
Paul J. Baicich has been an active birder since his early teens in New York City. A former employee of the American Birding Association, he edited 14 of their “ABA Birdfinding Guides,” edited Birding, ABA’s bi-monthly magazine, and served as ABA’s Director of Conservation and Public Policy.
His concerns include an abiding interest in bird conservation and studies in the breeding biology of North American birds. In this last regard, he co-authored (with the late Colin Harrison) A Guide to the Nests, Eggs, and Nestlings of North American Birds (1997). Paul also has co-led a number of birding tours and workshops to Alaska. These Alaska destinations include the Aleutians, the Pribilofs, the Seward Peninsula, and St. Lawrence Island. He has also led tours to Cuba.
Among his many other activities, he has worked for the National Wildlife Refuge System on a consultant basis on issues of popular birding and parallel refuge receptiveness. In addition, Paul co-edits (with Wayne Petersen) the popular monthly Birding Community E-bulletin. Paul writes a regular column, “Quick Takes,” for Bird Watcher’s Digest, and he is an officer in the Friends of the Migratory Bird/Duck Stamp. In 2014, Paul received the Ducks Unlimited “Wetland Conservation Achievement Award” in the category of Communications.
Paul is also one of the co-authors (with Margaret Barker and Carrol Henderson) of a book on the historic development of backyard bird feeding, Feeding Wild Birds in America: Culture, Commerce, and Conservation (Texas A&M University Press, 2015). He recently finished work on another co-authored book The Crossley ID Guide: Waterfowl with lead author Richard Crossley and Jessie Barry (Crossley Books, 2017).
Show Notes:
We recently interviewed Richard Crossley about his new Guidebook, “The Crossley ID Guide Waterfowl” that has been recently published. You are listed as a co-author.
How did your get involved in the project?
What was your role?
Please give us a brief summary of those features that you contributed.
Why “Waterfowl”? This guide seems focused on a view of birds from the perspective of waterfowl hunters. Why is this shift in perspective different from other guides?
How does it compare with Richard’s other books?
Who might be attracted to this book? Do you see this as a potential bridge between birders and hunters? Please elaborate.
Ducks Unlimited Canada has the distribution rights for Canada. We know that DU is seen as a conservation organization, what have they done? Why are they so effective
One important focus of this guide in on the food needed by waterfowl, and that this emphasis on food rather than habitat is a more enlightened perspective. Please help clarify the issue of habitat verse food as conservation concept.
How does the book connect enjoyment with conservation?
There are elements (sections) in this work that are not typical of field guides such as wing cut outs, how to make a nest box, and guidance on saving waterfowl and wetlands. Why this emphasis?
Why do you think the book is important, why did you do it now?
What has the response been… at least so far?
Mentioned In Episode:
Crossley ID Guide Series Website
Book Review: Reactions To The Crossley ID Guide Eastern Birds. First book in this series.
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